An Inspirational + Lifestyle Blog

I have discovered my favorite editorial calendar. I just recently started the free trial version of CoSchedule. A week in and I’m already hooked. I already know I’ll upgrade to the paid version once my trial is up. The basic membership is incredibly cheap, especially for the amount of time CoSchedule is saving me.

I may be newer to the blogging world, but I have been running 2 successful online businesses. The most time-consuming tasks involved social media marketing. After constant research, trial and error I truly believe I have found the all-in-one tool.

When a fellow blogger introduced me to CoSchedule I was dumbfounded by its capability and wondered why I hadn’t heard of it before.

I’ve tried probably all the options out there for scheduling social media content before I started this blog. I have buffer, viralwoot and hootsuite. So far, CoSchedule has become my go-to and my favorite tool to run my editorial calendar for Sweet Discord.

If you’ve been wavering back and forth trying to decide whether or not to give CoSchedule a shot, then I highly suggest you at least try the free 14 day trial. No credit card or payment information is needed to sign up. Try it for 14 days and see if its capabilities will work for you.

Just because it works great for me, it may not be for everyone. This is why I always encourage people to try the free trials of any platform first before just diving into a commitment. What works for me, may not work for you. It’s all dependent on what your needs are.

But, if you’re a WordPress blogger and haven’t tried out CoSchedule yet, then I would like to encourage you to give it a chance. Below I have listed all the reasons why I think you need to hire CoSchedule now.

It seems most people are picking a “Word of the Year” in lieu of setting new year’s resolutions. I kind of liked the idea and have jumped on the bandwagon without really realizing it until just recently. It hit me upside the head while creating the focus of this blog.

My word of the year is positivity.

The behind of the scenes of why I started this blog was to have an outlet where I could work through my negativity and turn it into positivity. All the while hoping to inspire someone else out there who just might stumble across this little blog in the masses of the world wide web. Will this be you?

Though I consider myself a realist, my husband says I’m actually a pessimist. Seeing how impressionable my daughter is already at just two and half years, it’s time to make a change. I’ve thought about it and thought I was trying in the past. But, let’s be honest, I haven’t changed much. However, after starting this blog I’m already starting to feel a difference in my attitude. I’m catching myself when I think a negative thought and actively making myself change that negative idea into something positive.

This box office smash hit, War Room, is an empowering movie definitely worth two hours of your time. This religious film by the Kendrick brothers influenced the theme behind this blog.

“…just like the military preparing their battle plans with their allies in a strategic place before going out onto the field, we believe we should each learn how to get alone with God and strategically pray through all of the issues we are facing in life before trying to go out and deal with them. We can tell a huge difference in the result when we fight our battles in prayer first.” – Alex Kendrick, Producer-Director

As I mentioned in a previous post I thought long and hard about the theme for my blog. I went back and forth between inspirational, entrepreneurship or party planning. After watching this hit film an inspirational + lifestyle blog laid heavy on my heart.

Sweet Discord was born.

The Christian Film, War Room, Shocks Hollywood

The movie, War Room, landed the #2 spot opening weekend and then gained the #1 spot its second weekend, over the Labor Day holiday. With only a budget of $3 million, this faith-based film brought in over $15 million in just its first week for a total of $67.8 million as of today’s date. Even though it was only being shown in a small select amount of theaters around the country, its second weekend it topped the charts with $12.6 million beating out “Straight Outta Compton” and “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation.”

Let’s Take a Look At the “Bad Situations”

The first bad thing I can’t go into great detail. But, just know that I put a financial hardship on my family unknowingly. Well, I should have known better but for some reason I miscalculated and now I’m filled with guilt. I have put my family in a tough place. Being the primary and only source of income for my family, the sole provider, I feel as though I have failed. It’s not something we can’t get through. It just created a situation we weren’t originally planning for. We’re fine, don’t worry about us. Honestly! But, we had certain plans that weren’t going to be able to happen now and I feel guilty.

Second, my husband’s hard drive went out in his computer. Being without his computer is a very bad thing. So, we had to rush order a hard drive (the exact one) to fix his computer.

Then, just a day ago, his whole computer has become unusable. It starts up and then shuts down. It’s random, it’ll last for five minutes this time, then three minutes and so forth. Not being home makes this cumbersome. We don’t have extra parts here to test each individual piece to diagnose which part has actually gone out. So, instead we have to buy a piece at a time and see if it’ll fix the problem.

Three bad things happening within a short period of time. I asked my husband, why can’t bad things spread out a little instead of always happening together. His response?

“Obviously God has something planned, we’ll be fine.”

I’m thankful I have such an optimistic spouse. God blessed me with a man who compliments me perfectly. Where I’m negative, he’s positive.

Hello, Lovelies!

As part of my 2016 new year’s resolution, I have started a blog. No, this isn’t my first blog but is my first blog of this genre. Some of you may know me from Farrally Paperie, LLC on Etsy. While we do have a blog there, it kind of fell through the cracks from just being so incredibly busy. It’s still there so maybe someday we’ll get it going strong again. In the meantime, this inspirational blog was laid heavy on my heart and I just had to get it started.

First, let’s begin with a little about me…I’m Kimberly, a 32-year-old who is working her life away full-time and just wishing I could be a stay-at-home mommy with my babies. I graduated college at the age of 20 from DeVry University with a degree in Computer Information Systems. A year later I had my MBA. From 2004 to 2008 I worked for Digital Evolution Group, LLC as a software engineer developing websites. Programming is my niche and my ultimate passion. But, in 2008 I started a second Master’s in Strategic Intelligence through the American Military Academy and soon after left the civilian sector to join the military. I no longer had the time to program and now deeply miss this field. Ok, enough with the resume!

In 2011, I started Farrally Paperie, LLC – called Design Scents at that time. I was trying to save money while planning for my wedding and wanted to try designing several elements myself. I had found a new passion.

After discovering Etsy, I opened up a shop selling party printables, specifically candy buffet tags. It took just one month to receive my first sale and I was hooked. A couple of years later I renamed the shop to Farrally Paperie and then last year registered it as a LLC.

So, now I’m a self-taught designer who is passionate about weddings and parties, working full-time and running a part-time business while also assisting with my husband’s Etsy shop, plus juggling family time. Yes, I’m a busy, busy person.

You can probably imagine that I experience stress on a regular basis. I have always been the type of person who had more on her plate than she could handle. And, the worst part – I don’t know when to stop! There’s just so much I want to do.

As you can probably already tell, I also like to ramble and I love to talk. However, I’m also your typical computer nerd who is an introvert and therefore very shy around people.

A little bit about my family really quick…I’m married to Josh from Farrally Manmade on Etsy and Handmade @ Amazon. He’s lucky enough to be a stay-at-home daddy. He gets to spend all day long with our 2 kiddos. ReiAnn is two and half and Asher is 10 months. We also have a 4-year-old German Shepherd named Kuno. I might be biased, but I have the cutest babies ever 🙂

Hello, Lovelies! I'm proud to say that I'm a follower of Christ, a mother of two and an always improving wife to the most wonderful stay-at-home daddy. I struggle on a regular basis to find the positives that are sometimes masked by negatives. Join my journey as I learn to find the inspiration in this crazy thing called life.

Hello everyone! I'm a stay at home mom to two sets of twins, and even though everyone says to enjoy it when they're young, I go back on forth on wishing they would get older and longing for them to be babies again. Sometimes I need to slow down and just enjoy the moment. Thanks for joining me on this journey, and I look forward to sharing my outlook and excerpts on life with 4 under 5.